• Moves automatically downloaded files into different folders, depending on its extension. It excludes hidden files.
• Detects if a file hasn't completed downloading and waits until it has to move it.
• Creates a log with the timestamp, origin and destination of the file that is being moved.
• Outputs on the console some feedback about what steps it is doing.
• If used with Cron as explained below, it outputs the errors as well, and it's always running in the background.
• When referring to files, same things apply to folders.

• Basic stuff with Python (function, class, tuple, loop)
• File management with Python (writing a log)
• Refreshed my knowledge about Cron

• Python 3 (version 3.8.1 used when creating the script)
• Watchdog package (pip install watchdog)

1. Clone the repository

2. Install Python 3

3. Install pip

4. Create a crontab file

   • crontab /Users/sergi/Documents/crontab

5. Add this line to crontab, that will execute automatically the script every time we boot up the OS and throw any errors in a file:

   • @reboot cd /Users/sergi/Documents/downloads-automation && ./downloads_automation.sh 2>/Users/sergi/Documents/startup/downloads_automation_error.txt

6. Restart, and enjoy!

App idea taken from Kalle Hallden on his video